Electronic Intervention to Chronic Opioid Therapy

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Opioid Therapy

Treatments: Other: opioid prescribing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04198961

IRB-54148

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot study will attempt to apply an electronic chart intervention to improve safety for patients on chronic opioid medications.

Enrollment: 43 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy of doses greater than 90 morphine equivalent daily dose (MEDD)

Exclusion criteria

• Patients prescribed short-term opioid medications for acute pain (less than a 90-day supply over the past 120 days), sublingual buprenorphine, methadone maintenance for opioid use disorder or with oncology or palliative care diagnoses will be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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43 participants in 1 patient group

Electronic Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Individualized opioid taper and safety recommendations will be communicated to prescribers via an electronic medical record encrypted message.

Treatment:

Other: opioid prescribing